Re: Re: Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents)

[Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:10:10 -0500
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, since I am still getting
> personal e-mail from people who were using Red Hat 7, and decided to
> just "try out" Fedora Core 3, only to find that any filesystems
> mounted by FC3 could no longer be mountable on their RH7 or RH8
> systems.  That's why I prefer users to have to do something that
> obviously acknowledges that they are making a change to their
> filesystem's compatibility prospects --- and that's something which is
> a lot more obvious with a "tune2fs -O " command, as compared to using
> a magic mount option. 
> 

makes sense for me. I just like to note that mount option was choosed
for the only reason: it's simple to use during debugging.

thanks, Alex


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